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HOW TO TELL THE AGE OF ANY PER

SON. When the writer was a good deal younger than he is now, and attended school, he possessed what was termed an "age card," which created considerable interest among his schoolmates of both sexes. It was a perplexing problem at that time how six rows of figures could be so arranged as to produce by so simple a rule an accurate answer. The Hartford Daily Times recently published the table above referred to, under the above new heading, and as a good deal of amusement may be derived from it by young people, we copy the following magical table of figures.

Just hand this table to a young lady, and request her to tell you in which column or columns her age is contained, and add together the figures at the top of the columns in which her age is found, and you have the great secret. Thus, suppose her age to be seventeen, you you will find that number in the first and fifth columns; add the first figures of

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THE STAR OF DAWN.

Come forth, dearest, in the gray dawning,
Before yon bright star fades away,
While brightens the blush of the morning

Sweet, listen to all that I say.

As that star heralds dawn in the skies, love,

Thy love to my soul brought its morn; Then smile on me with those dear eyes, love, For thou art the Star of my Dawn.

My devotion can suffer no change, love,
So faithful and pure is its flame;
Nor fate itself thy heart estrange, love,
I know 'twill be ever the same-
When sorrows and trials arise, love,

We neither would meet them alone;
Then smile on me with those dear eyes, love,
For thou art the Star of my Dawn.

Both gladness and grief we may know, love,
In season,
both sunshine and rain,
But knowing kind heaven is o'er us,
We'll never repine nor complain—

Come weal or come woe in our lives, love,
Hand-clasped we'll press hopefully on;
Then smile on me with those dear eyes, love,
For thou art the Star of my Dawn.
We seek not the chaplet of fame, love,
Nor wealth with its gilded array,
But love with its pure altar-flame, love,
To brighten our heavenward way;
Yes, this is the coveted prize, love,

Which we have so gratefully won-
Then smile on me with those dear eyes, love,
For thou art the Star of my Dawn.

Sweet twilight has blushed into day, love,
And smiles on the world at her feet;
And mark o'er the hilltops, that ray, love,
Caressing the meadow so sweet;
See the sun in his glory arise, love,

And Nature rejoicing in morn;
Still smile on me with those dear eyes, love,
For thou art the Star of my Dawn.

Lu Dalton.

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ON the seventh of February, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that segregation of the charge of unlawful cohabitation was unlawful. The decision has been expected by the foremost attorneys of Utah, and by most of the sensible people, from the time that it was known the Supreme Court would rule upon the question. It has been strongly suspected that the Chief Justice of Utah and the Prosecuting Attorney have entertained this opinion as well as others. It would be a reflection upon their legal knowledge to think otherwise. They supposed that the cases which they had prosecuted with so much vigor against their victims could not be carried before the Supreme Court of the Uuited States, and have, therefore, felt secure in segregating the cases and piling up charges, agreeable to the vindictivness they have felt toward the parties accused. It can not be doubted that these officers have willfully and wantonly used their high offices for the purpose of persecuting the people, who have become subject to their outrageous court proceedings. They have proved themselves vicious zealots, determined to persecute the people without the authority of law; and in their zeal have corrupted the offices entrusted to them by the appointment of the President of the United States. They have proved their unworthiness to hold such positions. What excuse can they make for having sentenced men to long terms of imprisonment in the penitentiary, and to exorbitant fines, simply because they had the power to, without the authority of law. Such men should not be suffered to occupy the official positions entrusted to them one day, but should

be hurled from their places as unworthy the confidence or respect of their fellow men. Scores of men have been placed in jeopardy of liberty and property, for periods varying from six months to three years by the infamous practice of segregation; and the same rule carried to its logical conclusion, would have imprisoned its victims for life, and bankrupted the wealthiest among them. Will any one presume to say that Judge Zane, who is regarded as, a fair lawyer, and Mr. Dickson, who is called a brilliant lawyer, have for a moment believed that so monstrous a doctrine as this was sanctioned by law? Their best friends say they do not believe it. If not, how true, then, are our strictures upon their course! How deserving are they of the infamy and shame of traitors, who corrupt themselves, prostitute the offices they hold to gratify personal hatred and spleen, or to promote selfish political aspirations, at the expense of their fellow men, whose liberties and properties are entrusted to their judicial care for protection and safety!

We have taken the position from the beginning that the Edmunds law, itself, is an act of persecution, naming something to be a crime that is no crime, and rigorously punishing those accused of it. The law was made, ostensibly, to correct immorality among the Mormon people; but the Mormon people are not immoral, and the polygamists among them are the most moral. Because of this, men who have learned this fact, and all the Federal officials know it, if they be men of honor, will not prosecute those who are liable under it, for the offense it names. How can a conscientious man send his fellow men to prison when he knows that it is an outrage on society to do so. Some may say: "It being a law, it is the duty of the officers to prosecute the offenders against it;" but there is a higher duty known to men of honor, which is, to be just and merciful; to preserve conscience, though they lose position. Such men are not dependent upon the petty offices conferred upon them without the consent or ap

proval of the people, for a livelihood and support. This is not complimentary to our Federal friends, but is it not just? They evidently have no scruples or conscience to prevent them enjoying the emoluments of their offices, increased and enhanced by undue exercise of their civil functions, to the prosecution and oppression of the people who have a right to demand justice at their hands. When men lay aside the sentiments of honor and all conscience defy, there is no bound to their caprice, no limit to their vindictiveness, no restraint to their hate. They plunge on in their course until the Eternal God of Justice, who varies not in holding all His children to account, brings them to confront their sins, and corrects them in their unbidden course. In judicial matters He sometimes employs the Supreme Court of the United States as the corrective, as in the presence instance. On a previous occasion, when the bigoted zeal of the Chief Justice of the Territory of Utah led him to some fantastic constructions of the law, the same tribunal set him right, and the President promptly removed him from his position. That is what the President ought to do with Messrs. Zane and Dickson.

As a rule the men who accept offices in the Territory of Utah by appointment of the President of the United States are indigent, dependent, almost incapable of making their way successfully, except they draw their vitality from the government teat. It is usual for men of such character to prostitute their offices for personal gain, caprice or hate. We need not look for these things to be corrected until such time as the people govern, and the incumbents of the offices, shall be the people's choice. It is a sin and an outrage, in free America,

that others should hold place and power among the people. It is one of the sins and outrages which time and the justice of God will correct.

The most graceful thing, which our present Chief Justice and Prosecuting Attorney could do, would be to resign; but they will not do it, because they are not men of sensitive natures, refined or feeling. They ought not to be suffered to occupy their places longer. The people of this Territory have the right to de│mand the appointive power that successors be named to occupy their places. There is as good reason for this demand as for the removal of a leper from among a community, as for the punishment of a robber or highwayman, or other vicious character who threatens the liberties and property of the people.

The origin of the term, "Brother Jonathan," as applied to the United States, is as follows: When General Washington, after having become the commander of the army, went to Massachusetts to organize it, he found a great want of ammunition and other means of defense. On one occasion, it seemed no means could be devised for the necessary safety. Jonathan Trumbull, the elder, was then Governor of the State of Connecticut, and the General, placing the utmost confidence in His Excellency's judgment, remarked, "We must consult Brother Jonathan on this subject." Washington did so, and the Governor was successful in supplying many of the wants of the army. Thereafter, when difficulties arose and the army spread over the country, it became a by-phrase, "You must consult Brother Jonathan;" until, finally the name has become a designation for the whole country, as John Bull has for England.

COMMENTS OF THE DAY.

IN one of our influential northern newspapers, over the signature of a young man who has "struggled upward" to apostasy, among other very caustic

and bitter remarks, I note the following: "I am most pronounced and uncompromising in my opposition to polygamy and Church rule, because I know the

one degrades women and the other robs man of his individuality." In the columns of an anti-Mormon paper, this would not be worthy of a passing remark, but appearing as it did, without comment, in one of our own papers, to be read in the families of Saints, and the person making the assertion, apparently being the son of a polygamist, may be sufficient apology for making it the subject for a few remarks. It would appear that this young man has attained a wonderful degree of knowledge in relation to "polygamy and Church rule."

There are no doubt a large number of very earnest people in Utah and elsewhere, who entertain opinions in accord with the assertions of this writer, who are too honest to affirm that they had a knowledge of the correctness of their opinions. Not so with him, however, he "knows" whereof he speaks, and boldly declares his knowledge. What a revolution this knowing gentleman could effect among the "degraded women," and the "robbed" men of Utah, should he produce in support of his declarations, the strong evidence upon which his knowledge is based, to the convincing of the aforesaid "degraded women" and "robbed" men! I scarcely need say, there are very many intelligent men and women in Utah, and elsewhere, who will, and do take the opposite view of this question, and who are, no doubt, as well qualified by experience and familiarity with all the facts to say that they are "most pronounced and uncompromising" in their support of "polygamy and Church rule," for they know that women are not degraded by the one, nor is man robbed of his individuality by the other; and notwithstanding this may be the unpopular side of the question they neither fear nor shrink from the task of producing evidences of the correctness and truth of this view.

Just now, in Utah, it may be thought by some persons a very valuable time, perhaps, to cry down "polygamy and Church rule." The power of the courts, sustained by the general government, presumably backed by fifty-five or sixty millions of people, and the popular co

operation of all so-called Christians of every nation, are reckoned to be on that side. Therefore it may seem meritorious and opportune for even fledglings to clap their wings and crow lustily in the popular clamor. But where is the truth to be found? To honest people this is the great desideratum, and I trust they will not fail to see it through the murky atmosphere of the popular errors of the times. In olden times, when truth was mightier than fiction, we Iwould have been directed "to the law and to the testimony (for) if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no truth in them." But in this enlightened age, the "law" and the "testimony," whether we appeal to the Bible and the ancient worthies, or to the Constitution of our country and its inspired framers, are all held to be antiquated and effete when called into requisition on the "Mormon question."

But no amount of such "knowledge" on the part of our enemies in relation to the supposed evils of "polygamy and Church rule" can ever deprive truly enlightened people of the consolation afforded in the fact that the Bible, the Prophets, the Patriarchs and Apostles, the God and Christ of pure Christianity, together with the Constitution of the United States-the fundamental law of the land-and its framers and honest supporters are all on our side of the question, while only prejudiced and uninformed, and rabid and bigoted abettors and advocates of a spurious Christianity are arrayed against us. Their strongest argument being that the sentiments of the age, the unblushing corruption of which cannot be denied, are against patriarchal and scriptural marriage and in favor of monogamy, and, I may add, brothels, whoredom, foeticide, infanticide, foundling hospitals and moral and practical frauds and corruptions in high and low places, with all the damning concomitant evils of a corrupt age.

The whole Christian world, so-called, may believe Mormonism to be false, "polygamy" an evil, and the "Church rule" of the Saints a threat against civil government, but fortunately for the Lat

ter-day Saints, the facts are against this view, and it is apparent to those who know the facts that "the world" is in error on these matters. The world take it for granted because it is the popular view, and they are unreasoning and unreasonable upon the question of Mormonism. The world have not given the subject a calm, unbiased, candid and thorough investigation. They have looked at Mormonism through the colored spectacles of popular prejudice. They long ago jumped at the conclusion that nothing good could come out of Nazareth, "and in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias which saith, by hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: for this people's heart is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their hearts, and should be converted and I should heal them." And again: "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness."

When we hear individuals shouting themselves hoarse in a "pronounced and uncompromising opposition" to the divine institution of plural marriage and 'Church rule," our experience of nearly forty years, and the information we have Sained by observation and study, imDells us to cast towards them a suspecLous eye, apprehensive that there is something rotten in Denmark." We have proven repeatedly, through years of experience, that it is not the innocent who cast stones at plural marriage, as a rule; on the contrary, the degree of the "pronounced and uncompromising" ascerbity of the opponents of celestial marriage, may generally be guaged by the extent of venereal and other crimes En which they, themselves, are steeped. They are also the most indignant and boisterous in their protestations of ignorance when their true character is charged home to them.

When we hear individuals declare that they know "polygamy," as accepted by the Latter-day Saints, degrades women, and Church rule robs man of his individuality, we involuntarily think-bosh! The most learned men of our time, ministers, politicians, astute statesmen and learned priests have been trying for the last thirty-five to fifty years to solve the problem of plural marriage and Mormonism, and to prove what this young man says he knows, and they have utterly failed to do it with logic, reason, history, religion or fact, and not content with these weapons they have resorted to the violence of mobs, to driving, plundering and murdering the Saints, with no better effect. And now they are trying to shield themselves in their determined efforts to obliterate the truth, by the slimy covering of rigorous and unconstitutional laws.

They cannot do it from the Bible. They cannot do it upon physiological, moral, religious or rational grounds, nor by mob-violence; hence they resort to violent, coersive, revolutionary Congressional enactments, and strained and tortuous constructions thereof. But they will fail, and the reason is they are fighting correct principles. Mormon plural marriage is not a crime in fact, its effects are not degrading nor evil, nor immoral, nor wrong. If it were, God would have denounced it through His great lawyer Moses, and through the prophets. And Christ would have reproved its practice among the Jews, and classed it in the category of crimes which he denounced. No man can prove it wrong either upon historical, Scriptural, moral, religious or physiological principles or grounds. The "Church rule" of the Latter-day Saints is as invulnerable to the attacks of their enemies.

If the principle of plural marriage, as revealed to the Church through Joseph Smith, as sanctioned, approved and ordained in ancient times, by the God of Abraham, and Jacob, and by the patriarchs and prophets, and by the Son of God himself, is not in itself a crime or an evil, then it follows that it cannot degrade women, and hence, he who says

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